Chabad Lubavitch Northwest Connecticut

What they offer

Chabad Lubavitch Northwest Connecticut is a Chabad house in Litchfield, led by Rabbi Joseph Eisenbach.

They kosher kitchens for the community.

Classes run regularly, one-to-one study can be arranged, courses from the Jewish Learning Institute are taught and public lectures are held.

For children there is after-school programmes and a children's club.

Older children and young adults have a teen club, bar and bat mitzvah instruction, a bar mitzvah club and a bat mitzvah club.

They officiate at circumcisions and funerals. Couples are prepared for marriage. A chevra kadisha serves the community.

The center visits patients in hospital, visits Jewish prisoners, looks after the elderly, works with children with special needs, distributes food packages, helps people who are homeless, helps people find work and runs a club for seniors.

Holiday programs run through the year, hands on. Mezuzos and tefillin can be checked here. There is a Torah phone line.